California Biographies
Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo.
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917
This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.ht
PHILIP C. MARBLE. Every community has for the basis of its prosperity and progress a number of men
who live quietly and without making themselves heard in their districts, but who keep up a constant
effort to better their respective positions and develop to the uttermost those resources they find at
their command. One of these men is Philip C. Marble, a successful rancher of Goleta, who has made
this community his home since 1892.
Philip C. Marble was born in Northern Michigan on October 22, 1872, and is the son of Miner S. and
Melvina (Huickman) Marble. Until he was about eighteen years old he was a student in Nebraska, and
then he began to devote himself to farm life. After two years of work there he came to California and
located almost immediately in the Goleta Valley of Santa Barbara County, where he has since occupied
himself with his ranch. He has been manager of Santa Barbara County Walnut Growers Association for
the past nine years and on the board of directors for the past eight years.
Mr. Marble was married on December 15, 1897, to Mrs. Mary Hails, a widow with three small sons. She
is the daughter of James P. and Isabella (Middlemans) Hamilton, and was born in Iowa. She came to
Goleta with her parents in 1873. By her second marriage there has been one child, Elizabeth. The
children of her first marriage are Charles H., Raymond and Alan W.